Similar Search Results

Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption : Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016271

Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2021

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … the laboratory public goods game exhibits no inter-temporal spillovers, measured time preferences should not predict …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325048

A New Regional Geography of Europe?The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863251

Spatial Interactions

Kim, Jun; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2022

This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and their social capital. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social capital. We show that lower travel costs increase not only the interaction...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081945

Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics

Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022

Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083692

The Isolated States of America : Home State Bias, State Identity, and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility

Wilson, Riley - 2022

I document a new empirical pattern of internal mobility in the United States. Namely, county-to-county migration and commuting drop off discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the same state, than to move to an equally distant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083757

Varying Youth Cohort Effects on Regional Labour Market Outcomes in Germany

de Graaff, Thomas - 2018

We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by −0.2%. We challenge the assumption that cohort size effects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907816

Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?

Nicodemo, Catia - 2018

Using a unique dataset a non-parametric decomposition, we determined whether immigrants with native name, immigrants with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. Results suggest there are significant price discounts for immigrants with native names relative to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910743

Economic Geography of Contagion : A Study on COVID-19 Outbreak in India

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2021

We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it using data from India. We argue that a core-periphery economic structure is likely to increase the spread of infection because it involves movement of goods and people across the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225544

Primum Vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment

Pastore, Francesco - 2013

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088339